·There were several
candidates for the US Congress who -rumors said- were Atheists. Yet, none of
them succeeded being elected. An interesting research report from Pew Research Center (on
the religious composition of the US Congress) indicates
that while20%
of the US is affiliated
Atheist or Agnostic, only 1 out of 535
Congress
is an Atheist.

·And that is incorrect! Because, they are referring
to Rep. Kyrsten Sinema (Arizona, CD 9, elected 2012) who was the
first openly bisexual person to be elected to Congress. She was reported as
Atheist, yet she denies it, and prefers instead to eschew the religious
labels altogether. (
http://www.kiwiblog.co.nz/2015/01/only_one_atheist_in_us_congress.html )

• Even Barney Frank
has said recently that he is not really a genuine Atheist. By the way,
Barney had disclosed he was gay –but only after being already in Congress-
and opened up about being Atheist only one year after leaving office.

• Another Congressman
who is Atheist is Rep. Pete Stark (an Engineer), CA, who served
in Congress from 1973 to 2013, that is his tenure lasted 40 years. He came
out in 2007, in other words, the disclosure of being Atheist was made 34
years after being elected.

• So, perhaps other than
Presidents Jefferson, Adams, Madison, Taft, and others such as Ben
Franklyn … (the so called
“Deists”, meaning “Agnostics” in my dictionary, and not the believers that
text-books try to portray to high-school students), ... no one who
campaigned "openly" as Atheist
has ever been elected to the Presidency or to Congress.

1.• The first person to run for the US
Congress as open Atheist in modern times –modesty aside- was Juan Xuna
in 2002 (please go to
www.Xuna.com , click button
"Press", and check the article by Award
Winning Journalist Bob Norman, he used to write in the New-Time
Broward-Palm Beach). Good journalistic exposé by Norman there, please check
it out!

** My race was against
another incumbent (R) Clay Shaw, running –usually- uncontested. He
had won 22 elections in a row, and was “untouchable”. I was the only
candidate of the Democratic Party willing to take on Shaw. But instead of letting
an Atheist represent the Party in such Jewish/Catholic stalwart (that is FL
CD 22), in the last minute Carol Roberts (a Jewish lady, former Major
of West Palm Beach, her son a Rabbi) was pushed forward, and there was no
talk of primaries. Rather than being steamed-rolled, I decided to run as a NPA. I managed to get all required 2035+ signatures, my name was on the
ballot, and albeit circumstances… I did great!

2.• The second such was
James Woods (D) who run for CD5 in Arizona
(2014), losing to incumbent Matt Salmon 70/30. Again, he would have been the first
person elected who campaigned openly as Atheist, and also the first blind
member of Congress, yet he lost.

3.• Here we go
again! John (Juan) Xuna valiantly trying again, this time as a full-fledge
Democrat. Times have changed! Yet, I did not!

MY FRIENDS,
THE TIME FOR EQUALITY
HAS ARRIVED!!

IT IS QUITE CLEAR THAT
WE NEED TO ELECT MORE SCIENTIST TO CONGRESS
… if that means
non-believers, so be it! There is no way to get those
scientists unless we destroy the “Atheist barrier”. That implies to
concentrate more in scientific credentials, and less in religious credo (or
lack of it).

• The "race barrier",
the "LGBT barrier, the "gender barrier", and also the "Jewish, Muslim,
Buddhist barriers" have been all broken.

·IT IS ABOUT TIME FOR HAVING FAIRNESS AND TOTAL EQUALITY, THAT MEANS
TAKING DOWN THE "ATHEIST BARRIER" AND OPENING THE FLOODGATES OF
CONGRESS TO SCIENTISTS.